Olin Ross Howland (February 10, 1886 – September 20, 1959) was an American film and theatre actor.

He was a personal favorite of David O. Selznick,[citation needed] who cast him in his movies Nothing Sacred (1937) as a strange luggage man, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) as the teacher Mr. Dobbins, Made for Each Other[2] (1939) as the farmer, and Gone with the Wind (1939) as a carpetbagger businessman.

[3] He also played in numerous westerns from Republic Pictures, including the John Wayne films In Old California (1942) and Angel and the Badman (1947).

Entitled "First Stop", air date January 17, 1955 Olin played the humorous role of a cafe and motel proprietor offering dubious accommodations to the road-weary Ricardos and Mertzes as they traveled by car en-route from New York to California.

In 1958 and 1959, he was cast as Charley Perkins in five episodes of ABC's sitcom The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan.